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GMC flexes muscles in bid to curb abuses
The General Medical Council has used newly acquired powers to suspend or restrict three doctors while investigations take place into suspected poor performance.
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Flight of fancy
Three year-old Dillawar Syed investigates a bronze statue of Peter Pan created by Dairmuid Byron O'Connor and placed outside Great Ormond Street Hospital.Author JM Barrie gave all the rights to 'Peter Pan' to the hospital. Kit Palmer, head of development for Peter Pan, said the statue would provide a 'lasting ...
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Doctors strengthen NHS plan opposition
GPs and hospital doctors have repeated and strengthened their opposition to key elements of the government's NHS plan.
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Drop in applications blamed on rule change
The leader of the UK's deans of medical schools has said a change in the rules on how many places students can apply to is behind an apparent drop in applications.
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Scots medical chief bows out with 'healthier nation' claim
Sir David Carter has delivered his last annual report as Scotland's chief medical officer, arguing Scotland has become 'healthier' since he took up the post in 1996, but accepting it is 'nowhere near healthy enough'.
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Budget boon: how young people will benefit
Scotland's share of additional tobacco tax revenues earmarked for health in the last Budget w i l l be targeted at ch i ldren and young people . Schemes to be funded include fresh fruit for infants and more school breakfast clubs; free toothpaste and toothbrushes for 100,000 children in ...
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Toast fans feel the heat
A Scottish hospital has collected 280 illicit toasters following an amnesty.
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Days like this
Nurse suspended. . .More waiting lists. . .HEA alarm at shake-up. . .HAs launch health service lottery. . .Medical laboratory officer overpaid. . .
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Pick your own
Does the NHS plan deliver on Tony Blair's grand vision for transforming the delivery of public health, or is it just a list of things to do? Lyn Whitfield looks at what it has to offer
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Mixed blessing
What do you get if you cross health and social services? A 'care trust', apparently, and they look set to be the Next Big Thing. Tash Shifrin reports
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Signs of the times
Two pages of the NHS plan are given over to a collection of signatures from the great and the good. HSJ asked a handwriting expert to tell us what they revealed.
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Piping cold
The new law - and trusts' own policies - to protect whistleblowers is yet to make an impact, and some staff groups may be loath to use them, writes Ann McGauran
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Putting the wheels in emotion
Heart-rending appeals for potential bone marrow donors to help named individuals can spark the public imagination, but they can obscure the bigger picture, says Lynne Greenwood
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Crash bang wallop - time to halt the public floggings
Managers' willingness to take a bashing hurts their local credibility
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After 'Enery, whatever next?
We may love him, but should an ex-pugilist spearhead a health campaign?